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Watch Live: Searching for Scars of a Giant Explosion on Jupiter

Watch as the Slooh Space Camera collaboration searches for scars from an enormous explosion in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere during a live show starting at 7 p.m. Pacific/10 p.m. Eastern.

On the morning of Sept. 10, a gigantic flare brightened Jupiter’s cloudtops. The white flash lasted approximately two seconds, according to amateur astronomer Dan Peterson Racine, who first spotted it. Subsequent amateur astronomers confirmed the finding, including George Hall, who captured video of the explosion (below).

The gargantuan blast was most likely caused by an asteroid or comet hitting Jupiter, much like the bright flashes famously created by comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994 or more recent impacts from a couple years ago. Tonight’s Slooh show will search for the impact area as Jupiter rotates and brings it into view.

Whether they will see anything is uncertain: some impacts, like Shoemaker-Levy, leave large brown scars across Jupiter’s face, while others mysteriously leave nothing in their wake. Even if they see nothing tonight, Slooh will continue searching Jupiter’s face for signs of impact for the remainder of the week.